Ethnomathematics

Welcome!

This guide is intended as a place for faculty and students to learn more about ethnomathematics and to share resources they have found.

Ethnomathematics is defined by Brazilian mathematician, Ubiratan D’Ambrosio as the intersections of culture, historical traditions, sociocultural roots, and mathematics.

The focus of this guide is Native American mathematics. Please let us know what you discover!

lbanta@mendocino.edu or librarian@mendocino.edu

Image Credit: An Inca quipu, from the Larco Museum in Lima by Claus Ableiter. licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

Image credit: Author unknown. Four Kiowa Nation tipis with designs. From top left to right: design featuring bison herd and pipe-smoking deer, porcupine design, design featuring arms and legs with pipes and lizard, design featuring mythical water monsters. Public Domain.

Books in the Catalog